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Lecture VI: The Triumph of Modernity | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

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The Great Triumph of Love and Truth

Genuine Christian love helps others indiscriminately for the sake of others. It is a force as strong as ever that we can genuinely be proud of. Hypocritical love acts against love in the name of love. Gerard sees this form of hypocrisy rampant in our victim obsessed society. The second force that Christianity injects into history, which reaches its pinnacle in modernity is truth. In fact, these two forces, truth and love, as we'll soon see, are inseparable.

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